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Assessing Acceptance and Intention to Use of Home Telemonitoring Among Patients with Liver Cirrhosis: Development and Initial Psychometric Validation of a TAM-Based Questionnaire

Ruxandra-Cristina Marin, Horia Păunescu, Călin Muntean, Daniel Vasile Balaban et al. • Diagnostics (2026)

Background/Objectives: Liver cirrhosis (LC) is a major cause of morbidity and mortality requiring continuous monitoring and early recognition of clinical deterioration. Home telemonitoring is increasingly considered a supportive strategy fo...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/diagnostics16162635

Association between social health status and health-related quality of life among community-dwelling elderly in Zhejiang

Jieming Lu, Zhebin Yu, Xiaocong Zhang, Mengyin Wu et al. • Health and Quality of Life Outcomes (2020)

Abstract Background Population aging is an inevitable trend and previous studies have showed the relationship between social health related factors and health-related quality of life (HR-QOL) in the elderly. The objective of this study is t...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12955-020-01358-4

Machine learning framework for early identification of high-spending Crohn’s disease patients using administrative claims

Jamieson D Gray, Lukasz S Wylezinski, Charles F Spurlock • BMJ Health & Care Informatics (2026)

Objectives To develop and evaluate a machine learning (ML) model that predicts Crohn’s disease (CD) patients responsible for the top quartile of healthcare spending.Methods De-identified commercial claims (2016–2018) from ~267 000 continuou...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1136/bmjhci-2025-101761

Examining the characteristic features of lipedema and the usefulness of BMI and WHtR in clinical evaluation

Monika Czerwińska, Marcin Gruszecki, Jacek Rumiński, Rita Hansdorfer-Korzon • BMC Women's Health (2025)

Abstract Background Lipedema is an adipose tissue disorder involving mostly women. One of the most characteristic lipedema symptoms is painful accumulation of adipose tissue in lower and upper extremities leading to disproportion. Due to th...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12905-025-03834-9

Medical and Health-Related Misinformation on Social Media: Bibliometric Study of the Scientific Literature

Andy Wai Kan Yeung, Anela Tosevska, Elisabeth Klager, Fabian Eibensteiner et al. • Journal of Medical Internet Research (2022)

BackgroundSocial media has been extensively used for the communication of health-related information and consecutively for the potential spread of medical misinformation. Conventional systematic reviews have been published on this topic to ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.2196/28152

Methodology for the Positive Voices 2022 Survey of People With HIV Accessing Care in England, Wales, and Scotland: Cross-Sectional Questionnaire Study

Janey Sewell, Carole Kelly, Adamma Aghaizu, Hannah Kitt et al. • JMIR Research Protocols (2025)

BackgroundDue to advances in treatment, HIV is now a chronic condition with near-normal life expectancy. However, people with HIV continue to have a higher burden of mental and physical health conditions and are impacted by wider socioecono...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.2196/58531

The thalamus and its subregions – a gateway to obsessive-compulsive disorder

C. Weeland, C. Vriend, Y. Van Der Werf, C. Huyser et al. • European Psychiatry (2022)

Introduction Higher thalamic volume has been found in children with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and children with clinical-level symptoms within the general population (Boedhoe et al. 2017, Weeland et al. 2021a). Functionally distin...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1192/j.eurpsy.2022.239

Evaluation of pragmatic oxygenation measurement as a proxy for Covid-19 severity

Maaike C. Swets, Steven Kerr, James Scott-Brown, Adam B. Brown et al. • Nature Communications (2023)

Abstract Choosing optimal outcome measures maximizes statistical power, accelerates discovery and improves reliability in early-phase trials. We devised and evaluated a modification to a pragmatic measure of oxygenation function, the $$S/F$...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-42205-6

‘Optimal’ cutoff selection in studies of depression screening tool accuracy using the PHQ‐9, EPDS, or HADS‐D: A meta‐research study

Eliana Brehaut, Dipika Neupane, Brooke Levis, Yin Wu et al. • International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research (2023)

Abstract Objectives Optimal cutoff thresholds are selected to separate ‘positive’ from ‘negative’ screening results. We evaluated how depression screening tool studies select optimal cutoffs. Methods We included studies from previously cond...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1002/mpr.1956

Digital quality gradient and the burden of elderly depression: A spatial multi kernel SVR analysis of socio economically vulnerable groups in England

Jin Rui, Yijing Li, Hector D. Menendez, Mariana Pinto da Costa • Digital Health (2026)

Digital infrastructure is increasingly understood as part of the contemporary built environment and as a policy-relevant area-level correlate of older adults’ mental health. Existing studies have often relied on linear models and have paid ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1177/20552076261465140

Injury death certificates without specification of the circumstances leading to the fatal injury – the Norwegian Cause of Death Registry 2005–2014

Christian Lycke Ellingsen, Marta Ebbing, G. Cecilie Alfsen, Stein Emil Vollset • Population Health Metrics (2018)

Abstract Background For injury deaths, the underlying cause of death is defined as the circumstances leading to the injury. When this information is missing, the ICD-10 code X59 (Exposure to unspecified factor) is used. Lack of knowledge of...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12963-018-0176-2

Medical informatics across Europe: Analysis of medical informatics scientific output in 33 European countries

Ozren Polašek, Josipa Kern • Informatics for Health and Social Care (2011)

OBJECTIVES: To investigate the medical informatics scientific output in 33 European countries. METHODS: Medical Subject Heading term "medical informatics" was used to identify all relevant articles published in 1998-2007 and indexed in the ...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.3109/17538157.2011.590256

Performance of computational algorithms to deconvolve heterogeneous bulk ovarian tumor tissue depends on experimental factors

Ariel A. Hippen, Dalia K. Omran, Lukas M. Weber, Euihye Jung et al. • Genome Biology (2023)

Abstract Background Single-cell gene expression profiling provides unique opportunities to understand tumor heterogeneity and the tumor microenvironment. Because of cost and feasibility, profiling bulk tumors remains the primary population-...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s13059-023-03077-7

Cross-cultural adaptation and psychometric properties of the Kessler Scale of Psychological Distress to a traumatic brain injury population in Swahili and the Tanzanian Setting

Joao Ricardo Nickenig Vissoci, Silvia Daniela Vaca, Deena El-Gabri, Leonardo Pestillo de Oliveira et al. • Health and Quality of Life Outcomes (2018)

Abstract Background To evaluate the psychometric properties of a Swahili version of the Kessler Psychological Distress scale in an injury population in Tanzania. Methods Swahili version of the Kessler Psychological Distress scale was develo...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12955-018-0973-0

Remote Patient Monitoring System for Polypathological Older Adults at High Risk for Hospitalization: Retrospective Cohort Study

Damien Testa, Israa Salma, Vincent Iborra, Victoire Roussel et al. • Journal of Medical Internet Research (2025)

Abstract BackgroundHealth care systems are increasingly facing challenges posed by the aging of populations. In particular, hospitalization, both initial and subsequent, is often observed among older adult patients. However, res...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.2196/71527

Classroom Management Strategies of Multigrade Schools with Emphasis on the Role of Technology

Taraneh Enayati, Farshideh Zameni, Mousa Movahedian • Interdisciplinary Journal of Virtual Learning in Medical Sciences (2016)

Introduction : It appears that the effectiveness of a multigrade school class is dependent on the type of class management. Therefore this study aims to determine the classroom management strategies in multigrade schools with emphasis on th...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.5812/ijvlms.12161

Implementing and Evaluating a National Integrated Digital Registry and Clinical Decision Support System in Early Intervention in Psychosis Services (Early Psychosis Informatics Into Care): Co-Designed Protocol

Siân Lowri Griffiths, Graham K Murray, Yanakan Logeswaran, John Ainsworth et al. • JMIR Research Protocols (2024)

BackgroundEarly intervention in psychosis (EIP) services are nationally mandated in England to provide multidisciplinary care to people experiencing first-episode psychosis, which disproportionately affects deprived and ethnic minority yout...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.2196/50177

Analysis of Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats of E-learning from the Perspective of Experts in the Period of COVID-19 Pandemic

Mahdi Moeinikia, Shahram Mehravar Giglouu, Salim Kazami, Meisam Mirzaei Shojakhanlou et al. • Interdisciplinary Journal of Virtual Learning in Medical Sciences (2022)

Background: Today, e-learning has become one of the basic components of education process, especially in higher education. Institutions and universities employ e-learning extensively in their educational operations. In light of this, the go...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.30476/ijvlms.2022.94428.1133